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"Maintain an authentic online identity" (CBKB, n.d., para. 2). This is a very interesting, unique and true policy. Given our staff professional credibility, the policy suggested "make sure your identity can be verified in your contributions to online social network.". CBKB further suggested when created accounts on social networks, include a link to our staff profile that leads to a web page to identify their professionalism.

This article was aimed to report how successful of developing the social media policies at the State Library of Queensland, Queensland State Archives and Queensland Museum. The author would like to use these organizations' experiences for encouraging more librarians and other practitioners to develop their own social media policies. It could help to maintain the secuity of information and increase the interactions between the organizations and users that the social media is the good communication tools for them.

This paper reported the results of libraries not using the social media tools and whether there were any strategic decisions supported the archives and libraries. It was showed that social media tools should be needed for supporting the development of libraries. Therefore, developing the social media policies are important. It could help the libraries to be developed continuously with the contents and archives being protected.

This journal mentioned that the social networking tools could be provided the chances for users to do self learning by sharing the resources on the online platforms. To establish the social networking tools in schools properly, protecting the personal privacy and maintaining the openness for teaching should be taken the balance. Developing the social media policy is important for the schools. It could make the social media tools bringing the advantages to the users but also protecting the resources.

This journal was investigated that the use of social media tools on promoting the library activities and the challenges which the library would face when using these tools. In the investigation, there were more than half of the libraries had been using the social media tools for giving the services to the users. However, the libraries didn't have the policies to clarify their responsibilities. It showed that social media policies could help to solve the problems they face.

The article was focused on the topic of social media policies. The author mentioned that social media policies were to provide the guidelines for developing the social media tools. The policies could also help the libraries to avoid breaking the laws of copyright, fair use and posting accurate information to the users.

Find all Online tools and applications on one page.. Really great site.

This article, written by the co-founder of Buffer, compiles the findings of several social media studies and provides interesting insights and statistics about social media. Because much of the article is about how people use social media and what people expect from social media, as well as how and when are the best times for companies to use social media tools, this article is very helpful to those using web 2.0 technology for work purposes.

NMC Horizon Report > 2014 K-12 Edition Preview - my social media bible.

Sounds useful for the assignment for those looking at academic libraries

Thanks Maddy - very relevant :)

School Libraries 21C Report - my other bible.

A little dated (uploaded in 2013) so missing some info on the new outliners features, but otherwise a good little introduction to the hows and whys of using Diigo.

Thanks, I found that useful - now I should use it more. I have been using just my "favourites" for keeping webpages, but I can see scope there for much better organisation. I wonder how other people keep and organise web pages. Obviously we're sharing them in this context as well.

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Yidarra's social media sets out appropriate use of social media for both staff and students. It has a lengthy list of inappropriate use of social media, making it very clear what is not acceptable. This policy is unique in that it also has a section dedicated to privacy with an appendix dedicated to the use of images and link to a form for parental permissions.

Abstract: "Social media is now widely used by librarians to fulfill a variety of objectives. Taylor & Francis has collated a range of opinion and data within this white paper to provide an overview of how social media is currently used by librarians, for what purposes, and to what effect. Our research program comprised focus groups in the UK, USA and India."

Why study social media in the library? Social media has the potential to facilitate much closer relationships between libraries and their patrons - wherever users are based, and however they choose to learn about and access library services and resources. Current usage of social media by the library community generally remains ad hoc and somewhat experimental, but the uptake of these tools is accelerating, and they will likely play an increasingly important role in library service provision and outreach in the future. This white paper has been researched and compiled by Taylor & Francis to provide an overview of current practices relating to the use by libraries of social media, from a world-wide perspective, against which individual institutions can benchmark their own activities and be inspired to try new approaches. This white paper is just a start - we plan to build from this a central web-based resource on social media for the library community that will provide ongoing updates, in-depth case studies and best practice guides. We hope this will become a valuable, developing resource that librarians will access and contribute to, so the entire community benefits from sharing ideas and experiences.